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Re: Unusual Amiga applications and software
« on: August 12, 2012, 04:31:38 AM »
Back in the day, I worked at an Amiga dealer. One of our customers used Amiga 3000s to layout their newspapers. At least they used Pagestream to do the typesetting and pasted it up in the traditional way. I wrote them a Cando deck to manage their classified ads. I also remember writing some sort of file converter to mangle text files from the Apple ][s used by the reporters into something more compatible with Amigas.

The local Planetarium used an Amiga 2000 for something related to the shows they gave. I don't know what software they used, they brought the machine in for repair once.
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Re: Unusual Amiga applications and software
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2012, 06:53:12 PM »
I remember seeing the guru meditation screen on the local cable guide channel a couple of times. Even further back than that, I saw an Atari 800 startup screen.
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